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Curated by Will Elder

Littman and White Galleries curating at Surplus Space
Opening: Sunday, August 9th 3 - 6pm
Closing/Panel Discussion: Thursday, August 20th 7pm

Dazaifu Tenmangū - a shinto shrine dedicated to the spirit of Sugawara Michizane, a scholar and politician of the Heian Period. An important aspect of this type of shrine is paying respect to objects whom have helped you cultivate your craft. Specific altars are set up for different tools, for example, if you are an artist and used a brush until it had lost its shape, you might bring it to the altar as a way to acknowledge its work and give thanks.

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An individual cricket chirps with no great regularity when by himself and the chirping is intermittent, especially in the day time. At night when great numbers are chirping the regularity is astonishing, for one may hear all the crickets in a field chirping synchronously, keeping time as if led by the wand of a conductor. When the numbers are 50 great, the resting spells of individuals are unnoticed but when the latter recommence they not only assume the same rate but the same beat as the rest in that field. The crickets in an adjoining field will have the same rate, that is, will make the same number of chirps per minute, but with a different beat as one may easily perceive by listening.

About the Artists/Curator:

Eli Coplan is an artist living and working in Portland, OR. His practice is formed across physical and networked spaces, investigating digital modes of production with an eye toward history and materiality. Eli has shown at Black Box Festival in Seattle (2015) and recently attended Triple Canopy's Publication Intensive in New York City (2015). With Jade Novarino, he received Surplus Space's Neighborhood Gallery Grant (2015). Together they are currently in residence hosting the Chin's Push webcam atchinspush.com. He graduated from Reed College in 2015.

Rose Dickson is a visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work explores dichotomies of presence and absence, material and immaterial, surface and expanse. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. With support from Oregon Arts Commission, Rose was recently an artist in residence at Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China (2014) and Studio Kura Residency, Fukuoka, Japan (2015). Her work is in the collection of Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

Will Elder is a visual artist and curator based in Portland, Oregon. Elder curates printed matter and artist projects for HQ Objective, and previously helmed “Austerity Measures” (Littman Gallery, 2014) and “You’re Getting Warmer” (Composition, 2015). He assisted with TBA:13 Festival and the Resource Room at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; the Open Engagement 2013 social practice conference; and was guest art critic at The Portland Mercury. His sculpture, text, performance and installation works have shown solo and in group exhibitions. Elder recently earned his BFA from Portland State University and is exhibiting new work there in September in collaboration with Trimet and the Institute for Sustainable Solutions. He will also present a solo exhibition by Portland artist Taryn Tomasello in October, 2015.